Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 2 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 3 | The CO took the next trip , to Nordhausen on April 4 , but on this occasion carried an eighth crew member who acted as a second pilot . |
| 4 | Telecine now gets the direction to run the first piece of 16mm film — the familiar opening graphics sequence together with the sound-on-film theme music . |
| 5 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 6 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 7 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 8 | In the chaos following the Second World War the travel agent had some extraordinary assignments . |
| 9 | The case marked the first use of the Organized Crime Control Act of New York State in connection with fraud on Wall Street 's financial markets . |
| 10 | More generally , almost in a caricature of Dicey 's views , a belief grew during the early decades of the twentieth century that , because of the destruction in the balances in parliamentary mechanisms wrought by the rise of party government , the courts formed the last bastion in the protection of liberties immanent in constitutional arrangements . |
| 11 | Confusion reigned as the field reached the second flight which had been mistakenly dolled off . |
| 12 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | It is simple to drop unsuccessful ideas because the computer retains the last 's shape and specific designs made on it . |
| 14 | ‘ The decision to convene the 9th emergency Congress of People 's Deputies , taken hastily and practically without any discussion , brings the country to a new level of political tensions , ’ his spokesman said . |
| 15 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 16 | The provision of a Frontier Station at Kensington Olympia , and the decision to site the second London terminal at King 's Cross are also of benefit . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 18 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 19 | This is a happy solution to the museum 's underlying financial problems exacerbated by the decision to show the first of the Memphis , Tenessee , WONDERS ( sic ) series of exhibitions , ‘ Catherine the Great ’ , which instead of making the estimated $3 million for the museum , actually lost it $1 million earlier this year . |
| 20 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 21 | The decision to postpone the Second Front , first to 1843 and then to 1944 , was deeply displeasing to the Russians , who felt they were being left to bear the brunt of the fighting against Germany . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH companies should benefit from the decision to host the ninth Europartenariat in Glasgow later this year , Allan Stewart , the Scottish industry minister , said yesterday . |
| 23 | Between the coupon payment date and the next ex dividend date ( X ) , the bond is traded cum dividend , so that the buyer gets the next coupon payment . |
| 24 | The releases mark the first improvement in the human rights situation in Malawi for several years . |
| 25 | On leaving the woods take the next right turn which will enable you to rejoin the main route at the A45 near Dodford . |
| 26 | It was only when everyone was thinking of bed and Jean and Tina had gone off to give their respective babies their last feeds and Hilda was in the kitchen clearing the last of the dishes , that Bruce said , ‘ Would anyone like a nightcap ? ’ |
| 27 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 28 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 29 | Mich eventually resorted to placing a hook on tension , then continuing to tension from the hook to reach the first real crack line for ten pitches . |
| 30 | The male guards the next , aerates the eggs and looks after the larvae until they are able to feed for themselves . |